Letter from Rachel Watson Gilder to Edmund Clarence Stedman

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This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.

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No. 13 East 8th St , NY

Nov. 25. 1906.

My dear Stedman

How often, in the years past, have you stood by & said "Good Boy" - when out came some book or piece of verse of mine! [?] encouragement is what most of us artists) need!

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I can't help thinking that if I had had more of it & more feeling that the world cared for what I printed, I would have -- before I was sixty -- come into a freer & more assured [wholesome?] - This past year I have written more than in any year since the New Day In other words I [?] havw been & was fine more of an artist.

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Because while I began with the "enthusaism of a lover" - not caring for the rivalry of Shakespeare or Dante or any of them in the line of love - forms - when it came to the usual expressiveness of an artist - so to speak - I felt timid, easily [knocked?]

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out of strong contemporaries (like deKay's; whose sturdy genius made my forms seem weak.)

(You started me in an epthetic direction) When the other night, I saw you in the audience, with "the child.", it warmed me with courage & your kindly nodded approval made me feel I had not altogether failed. Gratefully as ever RW Gilder

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